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Registration here is carried out by individual registrars, and it is the particular registrar who decides whether to register a voter or not. According to Francis J. Burns, a member of and secretary to the Election Commission, if there is any doubt in the mind of the registrar concerning a person's residence, the case must be referred to the Election Commission for a hearing...
Davis concluded, however, that the final decision was up to the individual registrar, and dumped the whole thing back into the lap of the Election Commission...
...whole series of arbitrary requirements. The success of an individual's attempt to register depends upon a grab bag of variables--the time of day, length of hair, clothing, smell--and a set of ever-changing semi-legal questions which may or may not be asked by an individual registrar. Conflicting reasons are often given for refusals to register...
Goodpeople is actually John F. Adams, whose three-part Harvard job includes assisting the director of the evening school and assisting the Summer School Registrar, as well as heading the exam program...
Shenton succeeded Kennedy once before in 1965, when Kennedy moved from registrar to become secretary to the governing boards. Before that, Shenton had served for three years as assistant to the registrar...